Let the punishment fit the crime


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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT
The punishment did not fit the crime.
BENNY PARSONS
I don't find the punishment fit the crime,
DARCY TUCKER
This is a longtime employee. The punishment should fit the crime.
MARTIN DRUYAN
I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case,
DARCY TUCKER
“A government's judicial system must always make the punishment must fit the crime. Too much is ty...
TROY J. GAINEY
The punishment doesn't fit the crime. I've done everything I can to get him out, or at least get him...
CARLY SIMON
Punishment creates crime.
SILVIA HARTMANN
The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligent...
CORRINE BROWN
Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
UNKNOWN
The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
GRACE POE
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
A curse burns bright on crime.
AESCHYLUS
We both agree this type of crime justifies this punishment.
LOUVON HARRIS
(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowar...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
VOLTAIRE
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE
It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus o...
JANET RENO
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Let the punishment match the offense.
CICERO
Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
ELI KHAMAROV
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great Go...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory t...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.
GARY GAMBARDELLA
The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is fi...
CICUT SUTIARSO
I believe in punishment. Someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But I also believe in jus...
DELNORA DUPREY
Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER
Those who notice, always notify, what they are noticing but we have to check that notification.
ARPIT PUROHIT
If one person get shot and killed is called a crime, but if thousands of people get shot and killed ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI
And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at ...
HERMAN KOCH
Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but w...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for h...
BENJAMIN MOSER
Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak...
GEORGE ZEBROWSKI
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO)
Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
BENIGNO AQUINO III
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the p...
JOHN RUSKIN
The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Pu...
PAUL GREENGRASS
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to ...
WOODY ALLEN
Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
MAUREEN JOHNSON
Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow Wh...
MATT TAIBBI
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena, Nel delit...
VITTORIO ALFIERI
We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which...
OSHO
The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by t...
OSCAR WILDE
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awa...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...
JOHN STEINBECK
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific pla...
IMELDA MARCOS
what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
CAREW PAPRITZ
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of gen...
ALCEE HASTINGS
Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
WILLIAM COWPER
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY
In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory t...
H.L. MENCKEN
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
GEORGE HERBERT
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Whose the cap fit, let them where it.
BOB MARLEY
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.
KATHERINE ARDEN
I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.
There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas
One da...
JAY-Z
I am very disappointed because the charges did not fit the crime. The deputy was trying to kill him.
LUIS CARRILLO
He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.

In this he was echoing the P...
TERRY PRATCHETT
They traded their houses for the big house.
GARY GAMBARDELLA
"That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar...
GARY GAMBARDELLA
Instead of living on a 130 acre farm making millions, he'll be living in an 8 by 8 cell making licen...
GARY GAMBARDELLA
The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destit...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'ROURKE
We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it&#...
JANET RENO
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small mo...
IDA B. WELLS
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON
The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.
NOAM CHOMSKY
As aparições são, por assim dizer, pedaços ou fragmentos de outros mundos, o seu princípio. É ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of cri...
HENRY GEORGE
The hallmark of a false confession is where the confession did not fit with the knowable, verifiable...
STEVEN DRIZIN
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...
HANNAH ARENDT
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the o...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF

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